North Carolina Newspapers

m THE CAROLINA TIMtf 3-A^UlkHAM, N. C. IATUKOAV, OCTOBIR 30, 19(9 Dbrhain Failed the ilAACP THIS lECENS MUIT II MMOVKO PROM OUR NATION II Last wef4’s me«Hinp of the annual session of the North Carolina branch of the Xational Asjocintirm for the Advancement of Colored People in Durham uncovered some stark rev elations that should claim the serious atten tion of the citizens of this state and Durham in particular. Whatever came out of tlie meetirtlf, pood or had. there was one thing that stood out like a sore thumb to the em- barrassifHhit of Durham’s Nepro citizens in general, and that was the absence of theii ministers, collefje and public school teachers physicians and other professionals, business men and women at the sessions in numbers sufficient to pive evidence of their whole hearted supporti to the NAACP. Frankly, we are at a loss to determine exactly where or upon whom to place the blame for the otherwise poor attendance. Our inquiry into the matter reveals about as many different answers as the niimber of (jor.son* whom we asked. Certainly a speaker of such national note as Editor Harry Golden, should hnvr resnlted in more than the sparsely or half filled auditorium which ereeted him dtir- in? his address at the N.A.ACP annua] session. If the state officers of the association felt no embarrassment the few leadin|? Negroes ot Durham who were present should have. With the exception of Durham’s ministers, its professional, business men and women and the average working man and woman majr have a plausible excuse for their lack of attendance at the \.\.\CP day time sessions, .'Purely no person woull expect anv one to neglect his job to put In his attendance at the lay sessions. VV'e ilo think, however, that out of a total of .15 or more ministers who claim membership in the local ministerial al liance, that an average daily attendance of five at t-he X.A.ACI’ annual session was en tirely too low a number to be representative. If our ministers failed in their duty at the day sessions, our teachers, physicians, lead ing business and professional men and women let the N'\ACP annual session down almost completely at the night sessions. It may he that a measure of individual or personal ■-.uccess is beginning to go to the heads of some of tis. If this is true, we would like to remind those who have become so affected that the race as a whole is still in lcsperate need of the NAACP program. The oppressor irrou|) does not ask whether a Negro citizen is a minister, physician, teacher or btisiness man or woman. The only information neces sary for fine to receive insults and abuses is to be classed as a Negro. It is this stigma the M.V.ACP is fighting, and any member of the race who withholds his support is standing in the way of his own progress as well as that of the group as a whole. Coning Events ol Hie Times ^ ... j "• lir tfo Public School^ C-' ' Bishop Jones to SpeakI _a Hlftorlcal perspective.- . .5 Mt. OHw A. M. B. Zion graduate of Howard Unljtsi Church. 123 Powe St., will have I ygrsity and The Western Rea V > M iti spwker the Rt. Rev^ , gerve University Law SchoolJ:T DeJarmon serves as conslutanfcX-;i to the Labor Law Committee of - . k the United States Senate; Chaiiv'.; ^ Raymond L. Jones at the 11:00 o’clock worship services Sun day, October 21. Bishop Jones Is the presiding | prelate of the 2nd Episcopal Di strict - of the A. M. E. Zion Church. He resides in Salisbury. This will mark the first of ficial visit of Bishop Jones to Mi. Olive during the tenure of its present pastor the Rev. Elias S. Hardge, Jr. who is clos ing out his second year here in Durham. Building: Fund Event At Mt. Bright A musical program will be presented at Mount Bright Baptist Church Sunday even ing, October 21, at 6 p. m. Api>earlng will be the Senior snd Junior Choirs of Mount Bright, Harps of Harmony, Durham, and the Gdspel Five, Hillsboro. This program is for the bene fit of the Building Fund and is -wonsored by Mrs. Christine Faucette and Mrs. Frances Price. ^ Significance of the Ruling in tiie Sdiool Case SPIRITUAL INSIGHT REV. HAROLD ROLAND Homecoming If the Fourth Circuit Court's decision handed down last week in the Durham school case came as a surprise to the white citizcns of North Carolina, it ceated none among its Negro citizens. If the ruling of the court, which we have not yet seen, does not strike down entirely the North Carolina Pupil .Assignment .Act. we agree with at torneys in the case that it is at least “a crack in the wall." We think Attorney (Ireenberg put it mildly when he stated that "it was the most significant since the 19.'’4 decision outlawing segregation in the public dchools.” In our humble opinion we predict that time will prove it to he the most signi ficant since the Emancipation Proclamation. Like many state laws upholding segrega tion in the southern states, Negroes know such are wrong but the tremendous cost in le^i tinje and enei^ that is dejpanded to 'itjiiiMt pfeWbitfre. HSTf it not been for the fine group of Durham’s Negro lawyers working at a sacrifice in coopera tion with those of the National .Association for the .Advancement of Colored People, victory in the matter might not now be in sight. We think the people of North Car olina should know that from a financial standpoint those lawyers got little or nothing out of the case. It might be said further that many of them even suffered loss of practice as a result of the time they spent in pr^'- paring it. We think the victory shottld remind those who are slow in giving their support to the NAACP and Negro lawyers that without them it is not hard to imagine what a pre- flicament Negro citizens of the South would be in when it comes to the struggle for their rights. We happen to know' that there nm many so-called intelligent members of the .1/; Fear, Hatred Often Cause Us To Mistreat Our Neigliiwrs ii/: par- "Saul, why do s*ctilt me?" Acts ! The Maffter asks ,uie young man why do you treftji^ ine with such cruel contemp^^ iVyhy d(j you mistreat me wjtji such a passion? What have,.'^ donj amiss that you tre^'i ’^me ep cruelly? Overcome |j)jy blind passion we are often i^ilty of wrongfully mistreating fellow human beings. We 'allow fear and hatred to ovei^Me us, consequently, we are (uiity pf shamefully and IM'Mhgf^jiy race ^ Diiiiwm and elsewfier# In North C^r- Iwho Art iior lmg^^Mrtr!rT>^4^e • .aiiA- hatr^ ^ther reft^se tt> stXrt it - ^ ‘ are lethargic in doing so. Cemmendation for the Duke Divinity Sdiool Whoever is responsible for the Mary Rey nolds Babcock Foundation establishing a fund at Duke University to provide .scholar ships for the training of Negroes in the ministry schould be commended. The scholar ships are greatly ncedel and should help to make it jMissible for young Negro men looking forward to entering the ministry to prepare themselves to meet the challenge of an integrated society that is now only a few years away. .As is usually the case when a great change is wrought among men, the church is the last to fall in line. It is not hard, though, to vistialize the religious world eventually becoming just as integrated as the sports and theatrical worlds, and that within the next decade. A minister who has been exposed to training in an integrated school is certain to find himself better pre pared to meet the challenge than one who has been trained in a school where there are only Negro students or only white students. What applies to Negro prosi>ective min- i.sters also applies to those of the white race. The next ten of fifteen years are sure to find white ministers pastoring predominant ly Negro or fully integrated churches the same as Negrt) ministers are sure to find themselves pastoring predominantly white or fully integrated churches. We think that the time is approaching when race will not be a determining factor in the selection of a minister to pastor a church any more than it Is now a factor in the selection of a base ball or football play*r for the big leagues or a college team. Certainly, the religious world at D«ntm, N. C. 0iHM PMUHMrt, me. L C AtitriNt rmMHr mmi taa asi^su «UM nutttr at tb« Post omtt Nortk Oirolina, tinder th* Act o| MMek r. in« BMMi. ifaHk omiai ntmmommutmt at mu. m. tOir KATH: M.0# FB VlbUI tti« right to malm dtanfii except tar Men to tb« fKialuitae ntwti of'tmaolietttd •rtielM mi fMMi will eventually have to fall in line with the changes that are now taking place not only in the United States but all over the world Through the years the Duke Divinity .School, has kept far ahead of other schools of the University in the matter of social progress. It will be remembered that the Divinity school voted to admit Negro stu dents over fifteen years ago, and that it has taken the trustees and administration equally as long to catch' up. It is going to be interesting if not amazing to watch the changes that are sure to take place in the South during the next decade. Truly, it doth not yet appear what we shall be in this part of the nation’s vineyard. A Serious Situation In Kinston The bi-centennial celebration of the found ing of the city of Kinston which took place in that city this week revealed some start ling facts that must not be allowed to go unnoticed if Kinston, its Negro citizens and North Carolina in general are to keep pace with the march of progress in this state and the wave of freedom now sweeping the earth. As disclosed in an account jniblished else where in this issue of the Carolina Times, the leaders of Kinston. North Carolina arc sadly behind the times if they are of the opinion that they can insult a representative of an other country on account of his race without creating serious repercussions among the darker peoples of Asia. Africa, and the other parts of the world. .According to informa tion furnished the Carolina Times Thursday morning the deputy mayor of Kingston, Jamaica was refused accommodations at a hotel in Kinston. North Carolina solely on account of his race. To make bad matters worse the Jamaican representative had pre viously sectired reservations at the hotel only to be turned down by the management when it tyas discovered he was a Negr%« Thfe silly notion still dung t« by some leaders of North Carolina and other states of the South that only white is right and that consequently they have the God given right to kick those of other races around is not only outmoded but it is dangerotis. Our own country is having hard enouffh time trying (Continued on page 6-A) terrible thing to become em bedded in the hunrtan spirit. Usually, we are slaves of hatred when we wrongfully mistreat other human beings. We see too much of this spirt the world at this time. We have seen this same ugly spirit In the burning and bomb Ing of Churches in Georgia be cause people exercise rights as good American citizens. So many could cry out with us in this socalled enlightened day “WHY DO YOU TREAT ME THIS WAY?” It is outrageous ly senseless arai unreasonable. How long will we remain the abject slaves of this ugly spirit? How long will decent people wink at such vicious, out of date outrages to be com mitted against law-abiding citizens? How long will justice sleep and wrong rule the land? What is the difference after two thousand years between persecuting Paul and the Church-burning American in 19^2? Both were unfortunate slaves of hatred. I hear the helpless victims saying “Why Ijto., You Treat. Me This Wajr?' Man is the tragic victim 6l an evil spirit. What a ravag ing influence is to be found in the power of sin in man. How blind are those who would deny the existence of human sin fulness. Call it what you will, we all must agree that there is something raically wrong with man. Man can climb to noble, lofty heights. And then on the other hand, man can descend to dark, degrading and shameful depths. You see It in Paul as well as the Church burners in 1962. Truly man the sinner needs ChrUt the Savior to rescue him from the en slaving power of evil. Only Sunday, October. 21, Home- comins Day will be held at Red Mountain Baotist Church. Rev. J. A. Stewart, pastor, will preach thp 11:30 a. m. worshio service. The afternoon service will beean at 2:30 p. m. Rev. J. W. Barnes, pastor of Piney rjrove and Terrell’s Cr^ek Ban- tL^ Churches will deliver the address. Dinner will be served at 1:30 p. m. Christ can save iis from this urgiy, vicious power. Christ rescued Paul and he must re- Dj*V scue the violent slaves of sin and evil in our times. The supreme beauty of the redeeming love as found in Christ is that it can turn a most vicious enemy into a lov ing gracious friend. This pow- le^e. er of God’s redeeming love is Mclver Ls a member of the the most creative force in the faculty of Little River School universe. When we see evil and is a memlber of Kyles and violence rolling as a mighty Temole. aur^ng tide we may doubt this The address is scheduled for gregt ' spirttual-m({|ral trvfth. th> 11:00 a. m. wprshlo .lervice. This th^ is real and it worlcs. On Sunday, Oct. 21, Kyles Temole A. M. E. Zion Church will have as it’s Layman’s Day Speaker, William B. Mclver. a graduate of A. and T. Col- man of the Continuing. Legal’?^ Education Committee of thi > Southeastern Lawyer* Aaeooi% tion and is a licensed mer of the Ohio Bar, South !lna Bar, of the U. S. Suj Court and the North Card Bar. For the past three nuBrs he has beeh% Ford In Legal Education at| York University. Musical Proffrandi The Susie V. Norfleet Bibl Class of White Rock Bftptl Church will present a proitrai featuring several well kno Durham musicians at the chui at 7:30 Sunday night. Among the partidpants ai Mrs. Elna Spaulding, sooraw Mrs. Barbara Cooke, pianist; Mrs. Lavlnia Parker, organist, and a voice choir under the di rection of Mary Bohanon. Sunday night’s program is one of the class’ annual features dur ing the church’s anniversary month. White Rock Church con tinues its 96th anniversary pro gram through October 29- Dean James T. Taylor is tea cher of the Susie V. Norfleet Bible Class and Mrs. Virgie Jones Davis president. Whole nations doubt it. In dividuals look upon it with scornful contempt. But none of these' things can change this stubborn fact of history and human experience. It is real as a healer, builder, reclaimer the nubile ana a reconclleT. tt trthe-po^ i^ram. wer God has given to redeem this sin-cursed and blighted ]02nd AnniVPrsarV world of ours. This love is the one thing that can cleanse from sin and sanctify. The occa.slon is expected to be one of the finest Layman’.s Dav nrogram to be presented at fhe church. Tonic for the address will be “God Give Us Men.” The phureh eordiallv invites to this special prg- In the face of a vicious, rampant evil let us ever re member that meekness and love still conquer the earth Some Readers Think All Writers Are Wealthy The Mt. Ziorr Baptist Church of Chatham County will cele brate its 102nd Annlver.sary beelnTiins Monday night. Octo- bp’- 22. On Sunday, October 28. will be annual Hjomecoming with all day service and picnic dinner. Everyone l.s cordially irrvited. The Rev. J. R. Burt is pastor. A sizable portion of the read ing must ije very native indeed regarding the income to be made from creative- -writiiig. Over the years I have gotten hundreds of letter's from com plete strangers asking me for large financial aid. Unknown correspondents have requested that I help send a son or daughter through college, that I aid in a sudden family emer gency, that I underwrite the publication of a book or fin ance an artistic career, or simply that I cater to the ur gent need for a loan for some purely personal reason, such as rent due or an unwanted preg nancy with which the correspon dent is sure I will sympathize. It is incredible what strangers will ask writers to do for them. I suppose movie stars get thou sands of such letters, But, ac cording to the motion pjct.vjr.f magazines, the studios take care of fan mall for the stars. Writers have no studio staffs to ' read and answer letters. Our hearts are sometime* torn by what seem to ' be Sincere and often pitiable re$)uests with which most of us hive no means of complying. | Since I have been writiirg for the New York Pot, my “please help me” mail has in creased. Because one’s naine ap pears in a major metropolitan paper, it seems taken for granted that the writer Is making a million dollars a year. I think it wise to state here and now that I am not making from all my sources of writing income put together, one per cent of that amount. In re cent ycart, since my Simple books, poetry,‘ and other work has been serialized in Africa, I have gotten hundreds of let ters from various African countries beseeching aid of one sort or another. Many are from students who wish to come to the United States to study and who hope that I can offer them scholarships, or board and house them In New York. Others (and some of these are heart-rendirrg) are from men and women in apartheid coun tries wishing to escape, or who have gotten out to Tanganyika or some other half-way point to Europe, but are stranded and starving, and write urgent ly for plane fare to get to London or some place more civilized than their own be nighted homes, or the tolerant but none to friendly cities in which they have found refuge. I have tried sending small checks to the limit of my ability. But small check really do no good, as subsequent let ters from recipients reveal. 1 have tried referring student letters to foundations concern ed with bringing young people to Ahierlca fftt study. But the foundations are swamped with applications. To keep ' false hopes from being raiaed, lately I have been replying to most unknown African correspon dents requesting aid in the vein of this letter I have just Mrritten to a young South Afri can stranded in a refugee camp in Dar Es Salam, seeking the fare to Bnglind; “I very much wish I cooM hMu you, but I cmhnot. I have nathing to hi4p iHth. I get dMelT' off' lettMi lllte from AMc. To Observe United quests. The only wealthy Ne- Nation S DaV gro writers I know of are Frank Yerby, who has had Kyhoo Club of the Har- numerous best sellers, the late Tubman branch of the Richard Wright who had two YWCA will present a program highly successful books, and commerating the establishment perhaps now James Baldwin United Nations 17 years whose latest novel, ANOTHER COUNTRY, is on the best The program will be held hi seller list. I have never had a best seller, never had a motion the chapel of the Mount Vernon Baptist Church on Tuesday picture sale, never had a hit evening, October 24, at 8 p. m. Miss Nezzie Carter will outline briefly the objectives of the United Nations and its efforts in the maintenance of international peace and security. Rev. E. T. Browne, pastor of the church, has consented to show slides from the various countries he has visited during his several play in the commercial sense I make just about enough to pay my part-time secretary and my weekly expenses. Because my name is known abroad I am sorry many people seem to be under the Impression that I must be rich. I am not. Sometimes I wonder how I am going to pay my monthly bills, trio* abroad. All I can send you or offer you The public is Invited to at- is my good wishes that all will t*r*d the program. turn out well with you. and that what you hope will be realized. Mdl’s DaV Tills is the answer I am forced to send many others than just LeMarquls DeJarmon will be yourself who write me for Layman’s Day Speaker at As- financial aid. I am sorry I wish bury Temple Methodist Church, it could be something more Sunday, October 21, at 11:00 tangible. m. DeJarmon. a Professor of The writer who mult make Law at North Carolina College, a living from writing, long speak on. “The Prayer letters can be very time con- Women To Have Charge of Service At Morehead Ave. The seventh annual Women’s Day observance of the More- head Avenue Baptist Church will be held Sunday, October 2'1 with all three services of the day in charge of women of the Church. The occassion marks the eleventh anniversary of the occupancy of the present Sanctuary. The general theme of the ser- i vice* will be“An Open Door”. The speaker at the 11 o’clock . sier^ilce will be Miss Cornelia E. Fennell of Willard, who is a tea- cheil in the public school sys tem, and a member of the Ex- ' “cutlve Board of the Women’s * Baptist Home and Foreign Mis sionary Convention of North Carolina, Others appearing on the program are Mrs. A. L. ' Fhilmore, State Field Worker II aml~~ Difale Teacher, -Mrftr -Mary | Horton, a representative of the Durham Countv Missionary , Union and Miss Minnie C. Lyon, j Return Missionary to Africa. ) Calendar of Events | Branch YWCA ' Monday, October 22—3:45 p.t*! m. Snappy Teen Y-Teen Club Meeting. 6:00 p. m. Copper Enameling ; Class j 8:00 p. m. Dressmaking Class i Tuesday, October 23—10:00 ’ a. m. Ladies Holiday and 'Turn- ( ble Time McDougald Terrace | 10:30 a. m. Needlepoint Class ( at YWCA J 8:00 p. m. United Nations Observance sponsored by Kyhoo S club at E. D. Mickle Center ! 8:00 p. m. YWCA Member- * ship Committee Meeting j Wednesday, October 24— ‘ 3:45 p. m. Snappy Teen Y-Teen ■ Club Meeting ' 7j30 p. n\. Teenage Committee j and Y>-Teen Club Advisers I Meeting 7:30 p. m. Knitting Class 7;30 p. m. Townhouse Coun? ril Thursday, October 25—10:00 a. m. Tumble Time at Mc Dougald Terrace 7:30 p. m. Millinery Class at YWCA Friday, October 26 7:30 p. m. Membership Dance (free to all Y-Teens are paid up) Saturday, October 27'—11:00 a. m. Bowling Class (open to all Y-Teens meet at the YWCA at 10:00 a. m.) 8:00 — 11:00 p. m. Townhouse auming. When letters are ac companied by thick manu scripts, they can become load stone* around a writer’s neck. Many senders of untfoMjlfed manuscripts are very Im- patirat. If the manuacript is not returned with prais« al- moiA immrdiatfely. an angry nftte may come. The sender evidently thinks he or she Is th« oMy perMK who has post ed ytta a mntmerlpt*tluit'iVMk or that month. The truth is that perhaps twenty unsolicit ed sheavet of pbetils, envelopes of short stbtlefs, or even Whole novels have come in the mall that week from people one does not know at all. It would take an editorial staff to carefully consider them all, and the postage for returning them eveMually becomes consider ate^. I aomatimea wish I ware a movie star, rather than • writer, with a big studio staff to open and answer my mall that is, that portion of it that is not from family, friends, or fans who do not want anything. The sad fact is that I have so little free time, and NO money to give away. But mayt>e some day I will have a best seller, then I can make it up to evety- body. It must be nice to ba able to bV generoui wtth baMi tim* and mooajr.